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Социалистическото семейство като биополитически диспозитив
The Socialist family as a biopolitical dispositive

Author(s): Rositsa Lyubenova
Subject(s): Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: family, biopolitics, socialism, childhood, role of women

Summary/Abstract: The author researches socialist family in order to outline its characteristics as biopolitical construct. My main thesis is that the socialist authority exercises biopolitical control primarily through the new role of women and the mobilization of childhood. The archive to which I refer is the product of the official discourse, i.e. official documents of the socialist institutions. I considered some specific target points of the biopolitical dispositive by analyzing archival materials which are inherently presetting the construction of new socialist identities.The issues on which I would like to emphasize are related to the nature and intensity of the government measures involving the socialist family in implementation of biopolitics during the period between 1945 – 1968. I tried to answer the questions what were the reasons for the state to take these measures and what were the envisioned and actually realized consequences of this politics.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 207-212
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian